FLUSHING TOWNSHIP, MI -- A Flushing Township woman says she has been ushered out of a township board meeting for the last time.

"If the police come for me again, I will be polite but I will not be going," said resident Mary Mossman. "I'm
tired of being bullied at township meetings. I told (Flushing Township
Police Chief Brian Fairchild) I am going to stand up for myself."

Township Supervisor Rian Birchmeier called police to have Mossman escorted out of an Oct. 29 special board meeting after Mossman -- a meeting regular and former trustee candidate -- entered into an exchange with another resident.

Mossman said after telling the other resident she was not laughing following an accusation, she turned back to the supervisor and said "Rian you need to call the meeting to order. He can’t just talk to me. Rian he’s not allowed to talk to me. Call the meeting to order, call the meeting to order."

That’s when Mossman was asked to keep her voice down or Birchmeier would call the police, to which she admitted responding "Rian, go ahead and call the cops because that’s what you do best. You’re a coward."

Treasurer Maryion Lee said township attorney Steve Moulton asked Birchmeier to call the meeting to order, but that Birchmeier proceeded to contact police officers by phone to have Mossman removed from the meeting.

"Both (township board member) Shirley (Gage) and I were telling Rian to
call the meeting back to order," Lee said. "There was no need for him to
call police. It was totally uncalled for."

Birchmeier proceeded to call Genesee County 911, with a Flushing City officer arriving 15 or 20 minutes later at the township offices, said Lee, to escort Mossman out of the meeting.

Birchmeier could not be reached for comment. Moulton left the meeting for a short while during the exchange, said Lee, but he later returned.

Mossman said this was the fourth time shes been asked to leave a
township meeting, but after talking with an attorney she vowed to not be
removed in the future.

"She didn't need to leave," said Lee of the incident, noting if Birchmeier had acted immediately the whole ordeal would not have taken place. "She had not
done anything wrong."